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Public Events February 2019 Subscribe to this publication by emailing Shayla Butler at [email protected] Table of Contents Overview Highlighted Events ................................................................................................. 3 Black History Month .............................................................................................. 5 Neighborhood and Community Relations 1603 Orrington Avenue, Suite 1730 Northwestern Events Evanston, IL 60201 Arts www.northwestern.edu/communityrelations Music Performances ....................................................................................... 7 Theater .......................................................................................................... 11 Exhibits ......................................................................................................... 13 Dave Davis Art Discussions ............................................................................................ 14 Executive Director Film Screenings ............................................................................................ 15 [email protected] 847-491-8434 Living Leisure and Social ......................................................................................... 18 Norris Mini Courses Around Campus To receive this publication electronically ARTica (art studio) every month, please email Shayla Butler at Norris Outdoors [email protected] Northwestern Music Academy Religious Services ......................................................................................... 21 Sports, Health, and Wellness Cover image Northwestern Wildcat Athletics .................................................................. 22 Winter colors of the Arch Recreation ..................................................................................................... 27 Speaking Events One Book, One Northwestern: Margaret Atwood, Handmaid’s Tale ....... 30 Speakers and Presentations ......................................................................... 31 Evanston Campus Map and Parking Information 2 The Wolves Highlighted Events Fri, 2/8, 8:00-10:00 PM February 2019 Sat, 2/9, 2:00-4:00 PM, 8:00-10:00 PM Sun, 2/10, 2:00-4:00 PM Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, $10 public, $6 NU student (in advance) Culture and Exchange across Medieval The Wolves, a girls’ indoor soccer team, practice drills as they prepare for a Sahara Africa succession of games. As they warm up and talk about life, the girls navigate the Sat, 1/26 to Sun, 7/21, free politics of their personal lives as well as the politics of the larger world. Each team Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, member struggles to negotiate her individuality while being a part of a group. 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Contact: Block Museum of Art, 847-491-4000, The Political Development of Asset Inequality in [email protected] the U.S. Caravans of Gold presents more than 250 artworks Chloe Thurston (Northwestern University) and fragments spanning types, styles, and religious Mon, 2/11, 12:00-1:00 PM, free practices, representing over five centuries and a vast Chambers Hall, Ruan Conference Room (lower level), geographic expanse. The works, both European and 600 Foster St, Evanston African, weave a story of the global networks and multi-directional trade at play in Contact: Ellen Dunleavy, 847-491-3395, the medieval world. The exhibition is notable for an unprecedented number of loans [email protected] from the national collections of Africa, including many works never before seen in Chloe Thurston’s research is at the intersection of the United States. American political development and political economy and has focused on the development of social and Keyword: Reproduction economic policies, interest groups and social Tues, 2/5, 5:00-6:30 PM, free movements, institutional change, and historical analysis. Kresge Hall, Trienens Forum (Room 1-515), 1880 Campus Drive, Jazz Orchestra: Jazz for Lovers Evanston Thurs, 2/14, 7:30-9:30 PM Contact: Eliot Colin, 847-491-5871, $6 public, $4 students [email protected] Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, Galvin Recital Hall, 70 Arts Circle, Evanston A panel of five feminist doctors, Contact: Concert Management Office, scholars, educators and activists 847-467-4000, [email protected] discuss the politics of human Happy Valentine’s Day! Bring a loved one with you to celebrate and experience the biological reproduction as well as the power of Cupid. This love-song program by the Jazz Orchestra and guest vocalist reproduction of social inequity and Kenny Washington will touch hearts and warm souls with new arrangements of “The gendered systems of power. Nearness of You,” “Stardust,” “My Funny Valentine,” and other jazz standards, all Angela Lawson(Northwestern Medicine’s Fertility Clinic) performed against the beautiful backdrop of Chicago’s skyline. Sekile Nzinga-Johnson, Ph.D. (Director of the Women’s Center, GSS) Sloane Scott (Planned Parenthood Generation Action) Katie Watson (Northwestern Medicine, Medical Social Sciences, Medical Education, and Ob/Gyn) Sera Young (Anthropology & Global Health, Institute for Policy Research) 3 The Stepford Wives Guys and Dolls Thurs, 2/14, 7:00-9:00 PM, free Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Contact: Block Museum of Art, 847-491-4000, [email protected] Joanna Eberhart experiences a major culture clash when she moves from New York City to the all too perfect town of Stepford, Connecticut. The women all keep their houses immaculate and the men all belong to a secretive club. Based on Ira Levin’s (Rosemary’s Baby, The Boys from Brazil) novel, The Stepford Wives’s blend of suspense and social critique paved the way for films and television like Black Mirror and Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Fri, 2/15, 2/22, 3/1, 7:30 PM Sat, 2/16, 2/23, 3/2, 7:30 PM Keyboard Conversations: Chopin in Paris Sun, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3, 2:00 PM Fri, 2/15, 7:30-9:30 PM Thurs, 2/28, 7:30 PM $30 public, $10 students $6-$30 Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive, This classic romantic comedy comes to life with a modern lens that takes us from Evanston the heart of Times Square, to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers Contact: Concert Management Office, 847-467- of New York City and leaves us asking what it really means to be a Guy... or a Doll. 4000, [email protected] Gambler Nathan Detroit tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in Jeffrey Siegel, piano town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and Stirring and deeply affecting works written after nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they've been engaged for fourteen the patriotic Polish composer settled in Paris— years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler Sky Masterson for the cash, and Sky ends up Waltzes, Mazurkas, Polonaises, and the glorious chasing the straight-laced missionary Sarah Brown as a result; but Sarah's never Barcarolle. encountered anyone quite like Sky. Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 34, No. 1 Etude in E Major, Op. 10, No. 3 I was One of the Chosen Ones: Slavery and the Valuation of Souls Mazurka in B-flat Major, Op. 7, No. 1 Daina Ramey Berry (University of Texas at Mazurka in C Minor, Op. 56, No. 3 Austin) Polonaise in F-sharp Major, Op. 44 Wed, 2/20, 12:15-2:00 PM Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12 ("Revolutionary") Harris Hall, Leopold Room 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Etude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7 Evanston Barcarolle, Op. 60 Contact : Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch, 847-467-0885, [email protected] Dr. Berry is a specialist on the history of gender and slavery in the United States and Black women’s history. She is the award-winning author and editor of five books and several scholarly articles. Her recent book, The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to the Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Beacon, 2017) has been awarded three book awards. 4 Black History Month Community Night: Sip and Paint Edition Fri, 2/1, 5:30-7:30 PM Norris University Center, Louis Room, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston Black Org Showcase Sun, 2/3, 1:00-3:00 PM Black House, 1st Floor Conference Room, 1914 Sheridan Road, Evanston Mental Health Panel Mon, 2/4, 2:00-4:00 PM Norris University Center, Armadillo Room, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston HIV/AIDS Testing Thurs, 2/7, 11:00AM-3:00 PM Black House, 1st Floor Conference Room, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston Afro Fusion Zumba Thurs, 2/7, 6:45-8:00 PM Henry Crown Sports Pavilion, Studio 2, 2311 Campus Drive, Evanston Food from the Soul Mon, 2/18, 5:30-7:30 PM Sheil Catholic Center, 2110 Sheridan Rd, Evanston Wealth is Health: A Financial Literacy Workshop Mon, 2/25, 7:00-8:30 PM Black House, 1st Floor Conference Room, 1914 Sheridan Road, Evanston 5 6 Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra Music Performances Sat, 2/2, 7:30-9:30 PM $6 public, $4 students Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Contact: Concert Management Office, 847-467-4000, [email protected] Robert G. Hasty, conductor Gioachino Rossini, Overture to La scala di seta (The Silken Staircase) J. S. Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C Major Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major The Arts Circle. Your destination for the arts at Northwestern. Megan Pan Flute Recital With world-class exhibitions and performances, the Arts Circle welcomes patrons, Sun, 2/3, 8:30-9:45 PM, free students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the larger community alike.